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PRONUNCIATION OF TUBULAR BELLS

tubular bells play
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Tubular bells is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TUBULAR BELLS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tubular bells

Tubular bells

Tubular bells are musical instruments in the percussion family. Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm in diameter, tuned by altering its length. Its standard range is from C4-F5, though many professional instruments reach G5. Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are a smaller and usually less expensive instrument. Studio chimes are similar in appearance to tubular bells, but each bell has a smaller diameter than the corresponding bell on tubular bells. Chimes/Tubular bells Tubular bells are sometimes struck on the top edge of the tube with a rawhide- or plastic-headed hammer. Often, a sustain pedal will be attached to allow extended ringing of the bells. They can also be bowed at the bottom of the tube to produce a very loud, very high-pitched overtone. The tubes used provide a purer tone than solid cylindrical chimes, such as those on a mark tree. Chimes are often used in concert band pieces. Most composers write Chimes under the category of Percussion > Mallet Percussion. It rarely plays melody, mostly a bass that brings out some color but sometimes has some solos or solis, often very simple.

Definition of tubular bells in the English dictionary

The definition of tubular bells in the dictionary is an orchestral percussion instrument of 18 chromatically tuned metal tubes suspended vertically and struck near the top.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE TUBULAR BELLS

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Synonyms and antonyms of tubular bells in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tubular bells» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TUBULAR BELLS

Find out the translation of tubular bells to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tubular bells from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tubular bells» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

管钟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

campanas tubulares
570 millions of speakers

English

tubular bells
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ट्यूबलर घंटी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أجراس أنبوبية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

колокола
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sinos tubulares
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নলাকার ঘন্টাধ্বনি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cloches tubulaires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Loceng tubular
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Röhrenglocken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

管状の鐘
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

관 종
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lonceng tubular
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuông hình ống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழாய் மணிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नळीच्या आकाराचा घंटा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Boru çanları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

campane tubolari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dzwony rurowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дзвони
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clopote tubulare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σωληνοειδή καμπάνες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

buisklokke
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Rörklockor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tubular Bells
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUBULAR BELLS»

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Percussion Instruments and Their History
According to Galpin tubular bells were introduced by John Hampton of Coventry in 1885. There is a record of their use in The Leeds Festival in 1886, for the peal of four bells in Sullivan's Golden Legend. * Tlie Golden Legend Sullivan In 1890,  ...
James Blades, 1992
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The Music Sound:
Back | Home | Up | Next Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Each bell is a metal, typically brass, tube, 30 –38 mm (11⁄4–11⁄2 inches) in diameter, tuned by altering its length. Tubular bells are ...
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2014
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The Mojo Collection: 4th Edition
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Teenage social misfit's debut expands the horizons of the electric guitar like no one since Hendrix. 'Record companies looked at me as if I was mad,' says Mike Oldfield. 'They all said, because there were no vocals, ...
Various Mojo Magazine, 2007
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Sibelius-v Ii
This has proved problemmatic, for the score does not content itself by saying ' glockenspiel' but abbreviates it to 'glocken' (tubular bells). The question is not unimportant as the character of the movement is undoubtedly affected. The tubular ...
Erik Tawaststjerna, 1976
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
SA headings for forms and types of music that include “tubular bell” or “tubular bells ” and headings with medium of performance that include ' 'tubular bell” or “ tubular bellsTubular bells (May Subd Geog) [ML1039 (History)] [M T720 ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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New Scientist
In an orchestra, indefinite pitch is not taboo, witness cymbals and maracas; a bell is more like an instrument of definite pitch permanently out of tune. To escape from this quandary, John Hampton of Coventry invented tubular bells, or "chimes" , ...
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The Science and Applications of Acoustics
Chimes or tubular bells are a series of resonant brass tubes suspended vertically from a wooden frame, and a foot pedal controls a damping bar. The tubular bells, whose resonant frequencies correspond to the notes of the musical scale and ...
Daniel R. Raichel, 2006
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Opus
'Tubular Bells' 42 Composer Mike Oldfi eld Mike Oldfield and 'Tubular Bells' Minimalism often makes use of repeating patterns of music (motifs) that subtly change. This gradual change means that the 'feel' of the music stays the same but the ...
Steve Block, 2006
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Billboard
THE UPCOMING RELEASE, on Feb. 20, of a remastered version of Mike Oldfield's 1973 album, "Tubular Bells," marks not only the first Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) from Virgin Records but also the first multichannel SACD produced by ...
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-in-One
The jQuerySelectors.htm file has a samplethat marks all albums containing “ Tubular Bells” in their titles. This operation is carried out with the following code snippet: function markTubularBells() { $("ul li:contains('Tubular Bells')").attr("class ", ...
Istv?n Nov?k, Andras Velvart, Adam Granicz, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUBULAR BELLS»

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Tubular Bells star Mike Oldfield's son found dead at work aged only 33
Harrow-educated Dougal, one of three children Tubular Bells star Oldfield had with Sally Cooper in the 1980s, died during an evening shift as an edit assistant ... «Mirror.co.uk, May 15»
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Hess hosts congressional delegation at Tubular Bells
Hess Corp. will host a visit on 9 April of a bipartisan Congressional Delegation to its Tubular Bells oil and gas production facility, located in the Mississippi ... «OE Digital, Apr 15»
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Concert review | Tubular Bells for Two: Manic live show faithful to …
Two musicians, Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts, re-created the progressive-rock album Tubular Bells note-for-note at a remarkable concert last night in ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jan 15»
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'Tubular Bells' Offshore Project Begins But There's No Reason to …
What is incredible about this Hess project is the time, money and jobs that were involved: Tubular Bells took three years to develop to first well spud (the initial ... «TheStreet.com, Nov 14»
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Tubular Bells Ramps Up in Deepwater GOM
The Tubular Bells facility in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM), designed to deliver from three wells in Mississippi Canyon, has started up 50,000 boe/d from ... «Natural Gas Intelligence, Nov 14»
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Hess, Chevron see first oil flow at Tubular Bells
s quest to harvest crude from its Tubular Bells field in deep Gulf of Mexico waters has culminated in oil flowing at a massive production facility 45 miles from ... «FuelFix, Nov 14»
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Steel Strum perform Tubular Bells on steel pan at the Schools Prom
The Exorcist has never sounded more tropical. Steel Strum played a cover of the horror movie's theme tune Tubular Bells for Classic FM backstage at the ... «Classic FM, Nov 14»
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Crowley tugs deliver Tubular Bells topside
In the case of Tubular Bells, Crowley's Ocean class tug, Ocean Wind towed the production deck, while Invader class tug Pilot, towing barge Marmack 303, ... «Marine Log, Mar 14»
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Mike Oldfield Ponders 'Tubular Bells' Prequel, Following Current …
His history-making record 'Tubular Bells' has sold an estimated 15 to 17 million copies worldwide and, four decades after he stunned the world with its arrival, ... «Huffington Post UK, Mar 14»
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Mike Oldfield interview: 'I am a man of extremes'
Oldfield got the biggest career boost of all the artists who performed that night: at HMV, sales of Tubular Bells rose by 757 per cent overnight. He pays tribute to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»

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